Bibliograph

Paradise lost, John Milton ; edited with an introduction and notes by John Leonard

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Label

Paradise lost, John Milton ; edited with an introduction and notes by John Leonard

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Paradise lost

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

919236617

Responsibility statement

John Milton ; edited with an introduction and notes by John Leonard

Series statement

Penguin classics

Summary

In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the center of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, and briefly in danger of execution, Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence toward authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to justify the ways of God to men, or exposes the cruelty of Christianity

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